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Fatal Return: Fatal, Book 1
A brutal triple murder. An abandoned psychiatric hospital. And a dark family secret.
Fatal Return is the bloody opening to the Fatal psychological thriller series by Alex Hansen - an Audible Original.
When her father suffers a heart attack, forensic psychologist Gilian moves back from New York to Rochester - much to the annoyance of her pubescent daughter Christina. The moving boxes are not even unpacked when the expert is already called to a crime Sergeant Ryan Moore needs her support to solve a brutal triple murder in the woods of Devil's Bathtub. The joint investigation reopens an old wound in Gilian - for the two workaholics are bound by more than just their unwavering sense of justice.
Fatal Return is the bloody opening to the Fatal psychological thriller series by Alex Hansen - an Audible Original.
When her father suffers a heart attack, forensic psychologist Gilian moves back from New York to Rochester - much to the annoyance of her pubescent daughter Christina. The moving boxes are not even unpacked when the expert is already called to a crime Sergeant Ryan Moore needs her support to solve a brutal triple murder in the woods of Devil's Bathtub. The joint investigation reopens an old wound in Gilian - for the two workaholics are bound by more than just their unwavering sense of justice.
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Published February 19, 2026
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Alex Hansen
35 books19 followersAlex Hansen is a part-time writer from Pennsylvania who specializes in interpretive rewrites of elementary school science textbooks.
Just kidding.
But he has written about demons, dystopias and drive-thrus, so maybe nothing is off-limits.
Just kidding.
But he has written about demons, dystopias and drive-thrus, so maybe nothing is off-limits.
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March 10, 2026
Going home is never easy. Those who remained continued to build their lives without you and now you have to scramble to figure out what's transpired and how you fit in, if you fit in. Prejudices of the past are hard to let go of when nothing's happened in the intervening years to tie you together. It is like you just left yesterday, even though 20 some odd years have gone by. It is a very uncomfortable place to be and that is the undercurrent that runs through this story.
Our returning protagonist struggles to make all the parts of her life work, as well as scrambling to prove she is adequate for the job she's been hired to do. And then there is dealing her young teen daughter . . .
Investigating is her talent and she is not going to let go of that. She juggles and scrambles and pushes and pulls and somehow manages to not lose her job or her mind as she works to find the answers to the questions running through her mind.
Our returning protagonist struggles to make all the parts of her life work, as well as scrambling to prove she is adequate for the job she's been hired to do. And then there is dealing her young teen daughter . . .
Investigating is her talent and she is not going to let go of that. She juggles and scrambles and pushes and pulls and somehow manages to not lose her job or her mind as she works to find the answers to the questions running through her mind.
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